THE CONGRESS SCRAMBLE ... NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ERA IS OVER ... RUBIO'S QUIET SABOTAGE OF OBAMACARE ... VISA WAIVERS ... BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE ... ELECTABILITY, WHO CARES? ... HE'S SUCKING THE AIR OUT OF THE 'PROVERBIAL' ROOM ... ROSS PEROT ON STEROIDS ... and other news of...
LIST OF DEADLINES, CHECKING IT TWICE ... RYAN'S FIRST REAL TEST ... TRANSPORTATION BILL (and EX-IM BANK) ... GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS ... GUN MEASURES FAIL ... NDAA ... THE DONALD, CHRISTIE, CRUZE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CARBON, CYBERVOTERS ... and other news of the week. Best, Joyce Rubenstein and the Capstone...
RollCall ... Congress returns this week for a pivotal work period with multiple deadlines, a busy schedule for an institution that tends to wait until the very last minute to get things done. House lawmakers will spend [this week] laying the groundwork on crucial pieces of legislation for the rest of the month, negotiating...
Paris ... we love you. Note to the forces of darkness, you will lose (h/t NYTs) ... and other news of the week. Best, Joyce Rubenstein and the Capstone Team (John Rogers, Steve Moffitt, Alan MacLeod, Diane Rogers, Erik Oksala and Kayla Baca) ---------- POLITICAL RESPONSES TO PARIS The Fix:...
This is a note I began composing to my grown kids, one of whom is living in a major European City, the other at a large university. My colleagues urged me to share it more broadly. As one of them said, “Put it out there, people can use it or...
The Congressional end game appears to be a CRomnibus spending bill. A CRomnibus is a combination of a Continuing Resolution (CR), which funds government agencies at last year's spending levels approved by Congress with no updates and no allowance for spending on new programs, and an omnibus appropriations bill, which...